CO-PALLETIZATION

FAIRRINGTON WAS THE FIRST THIRD-PARTY VENDOR IN THE COUNTRY TO OFFER CO-PALLETIZATION.

Since 2005, Fairrington has been a national leader in Co-Palletization (Co-Pal).
Co-palletization is the process of combining addressed, presorted mail from different sources into pallet-sized drop-shipments.

With Co-Pal, mailers can move more pieces deeper into the mail stream AND realize destination discounts.

The advantages for periodical mailers include:
A decrease in container charges and the ability to reduce zone and editorial pound charges by entering at the ADC and SCF level.

The advantage for Standard A mailers includes:
The migration of pieces from origin entry (and hence no entry discount) to NDC (Network Distribution Center) and SCF pallets with the corresponding entry discounts.

In both cases in-home delivery is improved.

Co-palletization affords the Mail Owner several important benefits:

The postage is paid at origin letter shops at Co-pal destination entry rates on Mail Owner discounts:

• Co-Pal offers increased postal discounts
• Co-Pal improves management of in-home deliveries via palletized trays
  • Track pieces to destination delivery
• Co-Pal provides opportunities to consolidate multi-cell mailings to hit USPS on the same pallet at the same time.

Co-Pal affords Letter Shop Owners several important benefits:

• Efficient pallet preparation (no need to batch zip codes or entries)
• Maximize inbound trailer use
  • Ship drop-ship mail and Co-Pal mail on same trailers
• Manufacturing savings including efficient use of plant storage capacity

Fairrington and USPS – A powerful partnership for our clients

The USPS has allowed Fairrington to set a static list of entry points.  We have selected SCF’s, (sectional center facility) all ASF’s (auxiliary service facility) and all NDC’s (network distribution center).

The controlled entry selection enables us to provide our Co-Pal clients with a delivery service that has proven results of over 96% of on-time service.

Contact one of our Co-Pal Analysts.